> Currently I have two rails sites on a linode slice.  So say I limit
> the pool size to 2:
> Then I have 4 rails processes: a spawner for each, and the running
> ruby instance

> 117m  49m 3156 S    0 13.8   0:00.93 ruby
> 139m  68m 3368 S    0 19.1   0:01.23 ruby

> 125m  50m 2180 S    0 14.1   0:00.03 ruby
> 171m  89m 2240 S    0 24.7   0:00.61 ruby

> My wish is that I had an option for "super sparse RAM use"

> i.e.
> not preload vendor/rails or what not, so two of those memory users
> could go to almost nothing.

> [this is without REE, but I believe the principle would still hold--I
> have yet to profile it sorry].
> Thoughts?

> > Currently I have two rails sites on a linode slice.  So say I limit
> > the pool size to 2:
> > Then I have 4 rails processes: a spawner for each, and the running
> > ruby instance

> > 117m  49m 3156 S    0 13.8   0:00.93 ruby
> > 139m  68m 3368 S    0 19.1   0:01.23 ruby

> > 125m  50m 2180 S    0 14.1   0:00.03 ruby
> > 171m  89m 2240 S    0 24.7   0:00.61 ruby

> > My wish is that I had an option for "super sparse RAM use"

> > i.e.
> > not preload vendor/rails or what not, so two of those memory users
> > could go to almost nothing.

> > [this is without REE, but I believe the principle would still hold--I
> > have yet to profile it sorry].
> > Thoughts?

> Conservative spawning already does this. But I think you will find
> (with REE) that you'll use more memory in total, despite having fewer
> processes.

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